This is an analysis of the poem Slumber Songs that begins with:
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Sleep, little eyes...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a baaa CbbbC X bdddXCcccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,5,1,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1101 1101010111 0100110111 0101111101 1101 1011010011 1101010101 1101010100 1101 1 1101 1100011101 1111110101 0101000101 1101 1111010101 0011110101 1101101101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.
The author used the same word sleep at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Slumber Songs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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